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Quotes by Actress

"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."

"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."

"People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie."

"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."


"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."

"Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other."

"I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself."

"The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family."

"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

"I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction."

"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."

"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."


"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."

"They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen."

"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."

"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."

"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."

"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."


"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
Act,

"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."

"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."

"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."

"I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally."

"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."

"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."

"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
Film,
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